01-03-1985 Council Packet Special Meeting

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"Sanitary landfilling" is a method of disposing of solid waste on land without creating nuisances or hazards to public health or safety, by confining the waste to the smallest practical areas, reducing it to the smallest practical volume, and covering it with a layer of earth at the end of each day's operation or more frequently if necessary. "Secondary materials" are the marketable or usable products derived from solid or hazardous waste through processing or separation. "Sewage sludge" means the solid and associated liquids in municipal wastewater that are encountered and concentrated by a municipal wastewater treatment plant for disposal at a sewage sludge disposal facility. Sewage sludge does not include sludge incinerator residues and grit, scum, screenings removed from other solids during wastewater treatment. "Solid waste" is garbage, refuse and other discarded solid materials. It includes solid waste materials resulting from industrial, commercial and agri- cultural operations, and from community activities. Solid waste does not include animal waste used as fertilizer; earthen fill, boulders, rock and other materials normally handled in construction operations; solids or dissolved mate- rial in domestic sewage or other significant pollutants in water resources, such as silt, dissolved or suspended solids in industrial wastewater effluents; dissolved materials in irrigation return flows; or other common water pollu- tants (Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Solid Waste Regulation No. 1). "Solid waste management" means the systematic administration of activities that provide for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, trans- fer, processing, treatment and disposal of solid waste. "Source separation" means separation of recyclable or compostable materials by the waste generator prior to collection. "Special wastes" are nonhazardous wastes that are not classified as mixed muni- cipal solid waste. They include, but are not limited to construction debris, ash, street sweepings, mining waste, sludges, tree and agricultural wastes and tires. "Storage" or "holding" means containment of solid or hazardous waste, in an approved manner, after generation and before collection for ultimate recovery or disposal. "Transfer station" means an intermediate waste facility in which solid or hazardous waste collected from any source is temporarily deposited to await transportation to another waste facility (Minn. Stat., sec. 115A.03, subd. 3) "Unprocessed mixed municipal solid waste" means mixed municipal solid waste from which yard waste and identified recoverable materials have not been excluded and which has not been subject to a process which oxidizes part or all of its organic component or any other process resulting in an organically stabilized residue. "Unprocessible waste" means wade materials that cannot be source separated or otherwise reclaimed for their material or fuel value.